Try Something New!

Lately, I have been working extensively with bokeh, or blur shooting. So, tonight I took to the streets of downtown Akron to shoot more but this time capturing a slice of life in the rain. All of these shots were fired with my 50mm fixed focal length lens. Therefore, you will not see zoom in and zoom out shots. 


These are shot with a wide open aperture or opening. When the aperture is wide open, a photo has a lot of background blur because the Depth of Field is limited. However, when an object's distance is farther away from the lens, less blur occurs. One advantage of shooting wide open is the amount of light that is allowed to enter through the lens and hit the camera sensor increases, thus allowing you to shoot in lower light. DoF shooting is a whole different subject which I will not even try to cover here.